No, you really wouldn’t. But as mentioned, the whole thing is on youtube. Just don’t jump to the end for Carrie Fisher’s song.
Disney’s Fantasia is infamous for the “Pastoral Scene” in which a group of female “teenage” satyrs prepare for their group date.
They all have different body and mane colors.
The white one with yellow mane is off by herself in the brightest part of the meadow.
There is a little “pick-a-ninny” black satyr which is absolutely delighted to be allowed to comb the white girl’s hair.
That scene is never seen anymore. When Disney announced an “uncut” version, they did NOT say “unedited” - the scene was reformatted to view only the other “girls”; the white/yello one and her assistant were simply “zoomed” out of the scene.
I can’t recall it, but the pickaninny has a name - find it and you may be able to find the offending scene.
(spell check insists that “pickaninny” is spelled “Picnicking”…
The excised scenes have been made available online, on YouTube and elsewhere, for years now. I don’t know if they’re currently available, but I’ve watched them numerous times. There are also black-market copies of the unedited film circulating.
Howard Hughes’ The Conqueror, with John Wayne and Susan Hayward (1956), was withdrawn from circulation by Hughes (he repurchased every copy) and not available from about 1960 until it was purchased from Hughes’ holdings after his death in 1979.
This is the infamous Wayne-as-Genghis Khan film that was filmed amid hot nuclear waste from atomic bomb testing and may have killed most of the cast and crew, over time. It’s not clear if Hughes withdrew it out of guilt or because it was such a terrible movie it tarnished his studio’s reputation.
HIM (1974) was a gay pornographic film about the life of Jesus Christ. It’s rumored to have been completely awful and tasteless to the extreme – however, no print of the film currently exists, and the only evidence for its existence at all is a handful of adverts & reviews from its original theatrical release.
The Perfect Master holds forth: Did John Wayne die of cancer caused by a radioactive movie set? - The Straight Dope
The original, 1977 theatrical release was released on Blu-ray with the final pre-Disney sale Blu-ray release of Star Wars. I watched with my wife an daughter just before opening night of Rogue One.
Not a movie, but the “Amos ‘n’ Andy” TV series. CBS pulled all copies from its affiliates many years ago, but not everyone complied, so there a bootlegs a-plenty of them.
Ooh-ooh! I thought of one. The (original) “Hawaii Five-O” ep Bored, She Hung Herself. It was aired once–and only once. Never repeated. Never released to syndication.
And not included in the DVD package.
A bootleg of it does exist. It looks like someone had a film copy and recorded a filming of it against a from a movie projector
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Dio Brando used his stand “The World” to move outside of our frame of time reference and snatch all copies of it before it could disappoint anyone else.
Star Platinum is probably responsible for the 15 minutes one can find on Youtube. 
Only recently? Is the rock you’ve been hiding under more than twelve parsecs from here, Colibri? It’s the first on-screen appearance of Boba Fett!
Oh, and Bea Arthur is in it. Maybe that’s why they made those Golden Girls action figures…
In this day and age of pervasive digital media, I’d be really surprised if there was anything that truly met the criteria of the OP, much as I’m sure Freddy Prinze Jr. would wish to erase Wing Commander from existence. His star just doesn’t have that kind of power!
Sunflower - a quick search for “fantasia sunflower” brings up clips (Fair Use - at 27 seconds, Disney can’t nail it for copyright.
A few years ago a film society somewhere was trying to arrange a screening of the William Friedkin film Sorcerer, but no one, including Friedkin himself, knew who owned the rights. I think it was settled out of court among Friedkin, Universal, and Paramount.
I find this situation, films made but not released, a bit more interesting than what’s posited by the OP. I remember running across one a few years ago, even reading its IMDb listing, but not being able to find it since. It was fairly big-budget, recognizable names in the cast, but I can’t remember the details. Just been gathering dust for 20 years.
I really dislike the idea of creative works being lost forever, even when there are already more than I could ever hope to watch. I’m glad that studios keep an archive, and that private organizations also work to preserve old movies and TV shows. I have to wonder if that ethos extends to porn. Is there a foundation somewhere dedicated to preserving the long and varied cinematic history of what happens when a tradesman pays a visit to a neglected housewife?
I think some variant of Rule 34 would apply here; there are so many pornographers in the world that you can bet that some guy somewhere (rather than an official foundation) has ANYTHING…
The original Manchurian Candidate was released on October 24, 1962, so it’s not surprising that it was out of the theatres in November 1963. It was shown on TV in 1965 and again in 1974, and was released on video in the 1980s (see A 'Manchurian' myth for a letter from the fellow who reissued it in the 1980s). It may have been difficult to see before VCRs, but that was true of a lot of movies.
I’m not quite sure how Rule 34 applies. (Hmm, is there a porn version of Song of the South; and if there is, would it have been withdrawn from circulation, too?)
As to whether some guy somewhere has a copy of anything, that’s not particularly useful in a practical sense. It’s not enough that something just exist, you have to be able to find it when you need it. Running a library is more than just putting things on shelves. Has any group ever worked to preserve, document, and catalog porn? I suppose this extends beyond film, too; like a library keeping back issues of Playboy. Could such a thing be done with any credibility at all?
I worked for a university library in the 1990’s, and they had old copies of Playboy on microfilm. They were on the open stacks, so anyone could pull them out and look at them on the microfilm readers. Black and white and grainy (as all microfilm was), they were probably only good if you were actually interested in the articles.
We also had an Italian magazine called “L’Espresso,” which is a newsmagazine like the American “Newsweek”, except it frequently featured nudity on the front covers (and perhaps still does–I don’t know.) We would frequently find stacks of them to reshelve in the little-used typing rooms, where it was suspected someone was having a little “private time.” I think a coworker once found some copies in the men’s restroom as well. Times were hard back then, with the Internet only in its infancy.
This thread must have jarred something loose from an abandoned part of my brain because I just thought of a movie that is probably closest to what the OP is asking for: Great White (a.k.a., The Last Shark (1982). This movie was such a blatant and obvious rip-off of **Jaws **that Universal sued and got a preliminary injunction imposed against its release in the U.S. and around the world. The movie all but dropped out of sight for about 30 years until it was finally released on DVD and was later used for target practice on an edition of Riff Trax.
It was my poor attempt at a meta-joke: if any porn that is imaginable exists somewhere, there’s some guy who got it all stored.
Oh man. This is really close to exactly what I was asking for, even has the “copyright” hook and everything.
Very well done.
…but even with this film, there’s poster art, trailers, etc still floating around, so proof that it once existed is out there.
Great find.
Serious question: why do I seem to have a version of the original Star Wars (no ‘New Hope’ in the opening crawl, no Greedo shooting, no CGI changes, etc) on DVD? It’s a two-disc set with the original version on a second bonus disc. I mean, if I have this how hard can it be to find?